Fear is something that we have about survival and suffering. About our own and the ones we care about. What does is mean to be courageous in the face of suffering, of uncertainty or our own body’s mortality? Courageous is to choose to be not afraid of those things. But how can that even be a choice? It starts to become a choice when you have more than one perspective of those fears. For example, fear is about losing something you thought was yours. If a house is on fire, you will fear if it was your house, otherwise you might just feel pity about the owner. If you stop seeing yourself as your ego or your close ones as someone you can lose, it will stop being scary. For me, it was after reading Eckhart Tolle’s book, I started to lose my ego and the fears that came with it. Not that I became free from it completely. But I can
How to stop the fear when it is part of you. When it’s ever present in the back of your mind. Always ready to bounce on your weaknesses. That is what fear is in the brain. Always looking to protect you but making your judgment cloudy. Paralyzing your actions, stopping you from living with an open heart. Making you angry and ready to hurt others to protect yourself and your ego. All we can do is start becoming aware of this fear and how it works in us. Sometimes all it needs is to speak with someone about how the fear gets hold of you, what keeps it hold on to you, how it can make you react. And you can laugh at it, think how silly it is and what is there to fear really. Is death something to be afraid of? Can you lose something that was never really yours? Can you let go of fear and not fight against it?
Because at the end of the day you cannot fight yourself, because there will be no winners.
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